Remotely Activated Protein-Producing Nanoparticles

Fightaging – There was recent progress towards placing drug producing microfactories in the body. These are programmable, artificial bacteria-like entities that can be set up to manufacture specific drug compounds in response to their local environment, or to signals from outside the body such as light or ingested chemicals Nanoletters – The development of responsive …

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Kickstarter and Crowdfunding

Kickstarter is the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, food, publishing and other creative fields. Technology Review – Kickstarter, a New York City–based website originally founded to support creative projects, has …

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Progress toward terabit-rate high-density recording that can also be thirty times faster than present hard disks

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Research is closing in on the next-generation of ultra-high-density magneto-optical storage devices that could store more than 6,000 Terabits (6 petabits) of data, more than 70 times the contents of the entire U.S. Library of Congress, on a single 5-inch disc. Yet the vast storage amount …

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China Plans to Build and Export Japanese and French Nuclear Reactor Designs at Two Thirds the Cost With Volume Production

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software China wants to build 153 new plants using existing technology and believes it can cut the costs of French and Japanese-based reactor designs by one third by rolling out the parts in bulk. The Chinese-made CPR-1000 (based on the french EPR) reactor was “proven, reliable, and …

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Restoring lost muscle helps animal models live a lot longer with cancer

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Reversing the muscle wasting caused by cancer tumors leads to longer survival. In most patients with advanced cancer, their muscles will gradually waste away for reasons that have never been well understood. Animals with cancer that received the experimental treatment that restored the lost muscle lived …

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Lawrenceville Plasma Physics High Yield Pulses to Megawatt Generators

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) has a goal of generating 30,000 joules with each nuclear fusion pulse. This would be net energy with conversion to elecricity. So if 100,000 joules was put in from the capacitors then they would need say 200,000 joules back and convert that …

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High Temperature Superconductor Status and Future Prospects

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software 1. Summarized benefits of second generation high temperature superconducting wire and devices Superpower inc believes that with the vortex pinning properties of YCBO and the grain boundary properties of BSCCO 2212 that it could be possible at colder temperatures to achieve magnets with over 100 Tesla in …

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Lasermotive Winner of the 2009 Space Elevator Power Beaming Challenge Preps for the 2010 Challenge and Power Beaming to UAVs

Ads : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software LaserMotive is commercializing laser power beaming to transmit electricity without wires for applications where wires are either cost prohibitive or physically impractical. They won the NASA-sponsored Power Beaming Challenge Level 1 prize in 2009. This January, team members Tom Nugent, Jr., and Dave Bashford became the first …

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Uranium Enrichment Economics

NEI Magazine looks at the history and details of the SWU (enrichment) market The capacity of all these potential centrifuge and laser projects totals almost 90 million SWU per year, sufficient to meet the needs of WNA’s Upper Scenario for the year 2024, and well in excess of requirements before that year and for the …

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Siggraph Emerging Technology : Touchable Holography, Scratch Interaction and Progress to Holodecks

There were a lot of Emerging technologies presented at Siggraph 2009 [see this link for the list]. Here are several of those emerging technologies. Touchable Holography from the The University of Tokyo Ultrasound is used to focus force or sensation where it is precisely needed and wiimotes are used for handtracking. Recently, mid-air displays are …

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Progress in Understanding Regeneration in Salamanders

Shwann cells are shown here in a salamander limb. When the limb regrew after being amputated, only these cells wrapped around nerve fibers; other cell types did not turn into Shwann cells. Credit: D. Knapp/E. Tanaka The salamander is a superhero of regeneration, able to replace lost limbs, damaged lungs, sliced spinal cord — even …

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